The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-09-11
FEMININE GOSSIP.
Women as Editors and Doctors-Nellie Grant
Daughter

Special to tho Indianapolis Journal.
NEW YORK, Sept. I0-It would make long
list simply to enumerate the names OF women
who sit in tho editorial chairs of magazines.
Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge went from successful
literary career to the Office of st. Nicholas. Ella
Farman Pratt takes occasional part in max
ing mp Wide Awake OF the fashion periodicals,
there is no better edited publication of any kind
in the country than Harpers Bazaar, OF which
Mrs. Mary L. Booth and in her absence Mrs. s
S. Conant has full control. Jennie June has
half ownership in Godeys Lady Book and is
supreme In the editorial-room. Nine Denorest
has but just retired from the business
control OF the magazine bearing her name The
widow of Peterson, the Philadelphia publisher.
has taken Peterson's Magazine into her own
hands, both editorially and financially The
Ladies' World pays the woman at its head s5 900
year, and the dress reform magazine
Dress, if Mrs. Jenness Miller will allow it to be
classed with fashion publications, is in part
owned and wholly managed By its editor who is
putting good deal of fresh talent into it's early
issues Mrs. Laura Holloway edits the Home
Library Magazine and the Woman's Argosy,
new Chicago ventures, which promise large sue
cess. Mrs Josephine Reddine edits two deco
rative art magazines very ably, and the house
keeping magazines in swarms. Mrs. Frank
Leslie has made fortune in four years. OF
more serious class of publications. Mrs.
Martha j. Lamb has increased the
culaton and made the reputation of the
Magazine of American History, and Miss jean
nette Glider commands unlimited respect for
her work on the Critic. Phifanthropc publica-
tons Of all sorts are in feminine hands. Ed
ward Everett Hale's Lend Hand is largely di-
rected by a woman, and the list, not of women
who supply matter for departments but who
in editorial or business control, both, of peri
odcals of some size and standing could be pro-
longed at some length. Many of the large pub
fishing houses say that women make the best
readers of manuscript, and the qualities
that make feminine talent available there to-
gether with some tact and business Judgment
make good editors of them ALSO Their periodi-
calls almost in variably good business proper
ties, and nicely adjusted to the exact client
age they are meant to reach. Jennie June SAYS
women like editorial work, and editorial work
thus far seems to like them also.
The address of Prof. Elliot Coues at the annual
commencement of the National Medical College,
Washington, just published in pamphlet form.
makes interesting reading. The medical de-
partment of Columbian University graduated its
first women students at the end of the last school
year. Professor Couess address was inspired by
this fact and its advocacy of the equal claims Of
women to all the fruits of modern civilization
was pronounced that the faculty. unwilling TO
print it, resolved to omit the custom
airy publication Of the annual addresses.
Professor Coues at once resigned his
position and placed his words on record
before the public. CHARACTERISTIC sentences
for yourselves and take the consequences
woman says to herself. Your medical college
does not suit me. therefore will make it over
And the thing is done She says to society,
helped To make you what you are | will help
make you over again if you do not suit me-
No one can foretell the result or presume to
limit fha of ia cnlo mir of ;nHs
vidual right to individual opinion. to individual
character. to individual conduct What pexta
event Whatever the case NAV be there will be
a woman in the God bless her."
New York Buddhists are growing in numbers.
and include in their ranks men and women who
are never named with or suspected of belonging
to the mystics. New York is not like Boston; it
never loses its head sufficiently to neglect pre-
cautions against being laughed at by the skepti-
cal. and the circle of believers shy of getting
before the public Nevertheless there is money
building itself may materialize before long.
New York Buddhists accept the doe
trines of reincarnation and Nirva,
who keep themselves in constant communica-
ton with the high priest OF Ceylon. There are
converts among them we'll known writer's
through newspapers and magazines. always
using nom de plume or suppressing the sigma
ture, lest the knowledge of their connection with
the mystics hurt their reputation for common
sense and literary sanity in other lines. Mrs.
Laura Hoiloway's Buddhistic Cookbook indi-
Gated her interest in the Oriental religions some
years ago, and the topic is a frequent subject of
discussion at the Sunday evening conversations
at her Brooklyn home. Mrs. Holloway is a
Nellie Grants daughter, little Vivian Sartoris,
is a beautiful child. Playing on the beach at
Long Branch with hcr maid the other dav, she
picture of attractive childhood, delicate,
quick and intelligently American rather than
robustly English. She is not in the least like
her father. but inherits her mothers eyes. bru-
rotfo pla nd Shana de wit ah int
of General Grant about the forehead and rather
prominent ears Mrs. Sartcris dresses her with
great taste, and the child is an unaffected happy
looking creature: saw a pretty incident, by
the way before took my eyes off her. A lady
with two children a little younger than Vivian,
chubby creatures both, passed the child
and said something to her little peo pie which
evidently interested them very much. The tots
looked at each other a minute then ran up to
General Grants granddaughter and emptied the
treasured stones and shells they had picked up
their walk into dainty straw basket that
she carried. They trotted away again without
saying word
There is Brooklyn woman who has been to
the races good deal this summer and has uni
formy bet on the wrong horse When the man
to whom she had mortgaged her furniture for
$500 tried to forecose, he found that there were
twenty-five other MORTGAGES in existence. The
woman had raised 81. 600 on $500 worth of goods.
and sunk it all ''ilcproving the breed OF horses"
She was jealous in the cause.
The yellow to be used this fall is a deem
orange, so vivid that it is employed in small
quantities. A black velvet hat. for instance.
low-crowued and wide-brimmed. has as its sim
gle touch Of color a tiny bunch of these orange
agrettes. There half dozen new greens,
none of them pretty. Absinthe and pale blue
is going to be a lead ing com bination. Red, now
as always. will be daringly dashlDg1y employed
till heavy frosts have killed off natures carnival
and checked the recklessness which always,
after the latitude of summer dressing, charac-
terizes autumn toilets
An odd fancy OF the autumn IS to wear gold
and silver sleeve-casps set with big jewel.
They are like those used in the days of low
af+
very decorative, but other toilet pur-
pose.
Low-crowned bonnets have appeared, but it
will take two years, at least TO make them gen.
era. L. p.
Royal Manners.